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How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county; but I would exert myself to improve the people who were under my influence.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)
The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)